The Arizona champion., 1887-01-08
WEEKLY CHAMPION.
STOCK NOTES.

The St. Louis stockyards must be a great success.
 Northern Arizona is the supply point of beet for California.
 Let no cattle. guilty of having pleuro-pneumonia, escape,
 A home of rest for aged horses is being established in London.
 England is now exporting a good many horses to Buenos Ayres.
 A thousand yearling heifers recent ly sold Tn Mexico for S6 a head.
 Spain has only 6So, 900 horses, but has 7,3oo, 900 mules and donkeys.
 A lot of bulls were sold at auction at Gray Eagle Station on January l..
 A California dealer offered az cents this week for cattle on the hoof in Flagstaff.
 Oxen for draught purposes will fetch from sIoo to $I5o pair in Mas sachusetts.
 At Shorthorn sale in Anderson, Ky, last week two COWS brought SI,ooo and SI,aoo.
 There is a much greater demand for beef cattle at this point than our cat tie growers can supply.
 The New Mexico Stockgrower makes its appearance in the New Year in much improved style of makeup.
 Mir. H. H. Pierce has sold his in terest in the New Mexico Stockgrower to his partners, Messrs. Hardy and Warner.
 The Chicago dressed beef syndi- cate has, it is said, made Sss 1000, 900 during the past four years out of range cattle growers.
 James Clark, an old-time Montana cowman, has trapped fifty beavers this fall, a pretty good catch, consid- ering the number of trappers out.
 A large cattle transaction occurred at Benson, when 5000 head of excel. lent Texas steers was received from that State to range in Cochise county.
 Theo. Winters, of Sacramento county, California, has put his sIoo,- GOO horse ranch in the hands of the auctioneer, and will devote himself to his interest in Nevada.
 Whoever heard of Galloway freez. ing to death? Under that shaggy outer coat is an undergrowth ot fine, furry hair that is an effectual barrier to any degree of cold.
 The New Mexico Land and Cattle Company, of Valencia county, had I5I steers, Averaging goo pounds, on the Kansas City market lasl week which sold at Sa.So per cwt.
 Twenty head of straight Bates cat tie sold at Corwin Anderson's sale, averaged S53S.5o, and had he put them Tn the condition some men are addicted to, they would have sold much higher. His reputation, how ever, is based on breeding, not on the quantity of corn meal he can cram into them. So mote 1t be.-Dallas News.
 Precisely to what extent the Chica- go meat syndicate is responsible for the depressed condition of the cattle business, will before a great while be shown, for the cattlemen all over the country are combining and making preparations to knock the syndicate in the head and hatten it out. The cat tlemen believe that the only thing now obstructing their road to fortune is the syndicate, and they mean to re- move the obstruction. The members of the syndicate are becoming alarmed.-Dallas News.
 A Canadian Journal says A Ger man inventor has made application to the government for patent process of manufacturing cattle feed from sawdust or wood meal and other ma terials. He proposes to reduce the wood of beach, acacia and other trees to fine powder or meal, which will be mixed with common salt and scalding water. Muriatic acid is then intro. duced and the whole reduced to thin pulp. Soda and other chemicals are to be added and the whole mass all lowed to cool, It is afterward to be mixed with bran, bruised grain or flour from oily grains, and after some more chemicals have been applied, the material is kneaded into dough, which can be pressed into cakes of any size. When dried, these cakes, the inventor claims, will be excellent food for cattle.